Chapter 949: Not Afraid
Manbao scratched his face in distress. "What do you think? If I go and talk to Mr., will he tell me?"
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang shook their heads together, "No."
Manbao nodded, "I feel bad too. Forget it, let's just ignore him. If he dares to bully the master again, we won't be afraid."
Even the King of Yizhou is in conflict with him, so why would he be afraid of a fifth-rank official?
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang didn't feel scared either. They felt the same as Manbao. They had even made enemies with the super-rank prince, and the most panicked and sad time had passed. Why would they be afraid of you, a small fifth-rank official?
Compared with the behemoth King of Yizhou, Chen Fulin is really not worth mentioning.
After listening for a while, Liu Gui said, "Master, Master Tang, Miss Man, how do you know that it was Master Chen who bullied Mr. Zhuang? What if Mr. Zhuang and Master Chen are enemies?"
"Impossible," Manbao said without hesitation, "Mr. Xu is so kind, how could he make enemies with others?"
Bai Shan nodded, "Exactly, sir, you are so gentle, how could you bully others?"
Bai Erlang sighed, "Besides, you have such a good temper, but Chen Fulin is such a nemesis of you. I wonder how bad he is."
"But..." Liu Gui said anxiously, "I've heard that this Mr. Chen is a well-known good man. Not only is he well-known in the six ministries, but he's also well-received by his neighbors. Even the vendors near his house say he's a really good person."
Manbao blinked, "Could it be that we have misunderstood, sir, and he are really old friends?"
Bai Shan: "If he was an old friend, why didn't you acknowledge him yesterday? And why wouldn't you fail to visit him today? How could you ever be so rude?"
"That's right." The three of them set the tone. Although they had no evidence and didn't know the story, they arbitrarily concluded that Chen Fulin bullied Mr. Zhuang.
Manbao put her little backpack back in her room, and the three of them sat in the small garden at the back. She said happily, "Are we going out to play this afternoon?"
Bai Shan: "Let's go to the street and look for a bookstore."
Bai Erlang objected, "I don't feel like reading or buying books today."
"Even if you don't buy books, you'll need to buy some pens, inkstones, and paper," Bai Shan said. "The grades will be out tomorrow, and we'll start school that same day. Are you going to buy them later?"
"Can't I use the one at home?"
Man Baodu said, "You always need spares. Besides, you are going to study at the Imperial College. I heard that most of the people there come from wealthy families. The brushes, inkstones, and inkstones you use can't be too cheap, otherwise people will look down on you."
Bai Erlang asked: "Then will you buy it?"
"I won't buy an inkstone. I have enough paper. I want to pick out two good pens and then look at some ink." Manbao and Baishan said, "Go to the Imperial College and ask if outsiders can go in and read books. If not, can you lend me some books? The books in the bookstores are too expensive. I don't want to buy them."
Bai Shan: "You are not short of money, why do you have to save money to buy books?"
"It'll be gone soon," Manbao said, "My family wants to buy a shop, and I decided to contribute..."
She'll also take some of the profits when the time comes. If she makes money...
This way she could quietly buy a horse for Koko first, and then quietly buy a cow...
Well, it will probably take some time for the shop to make money at this stage.
Manbao rolled his eyes and discussed with Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, "Do you think the rich people in the capital like to buy those particularly beautiful and rare flowers like the rich people in Yizhou?"
"I think so," Bai Shan said, "Didn't Madam Tang and Madam Ji Er live in the capital before?"
Manbao's eyes lit up and he became happy. He propped up his chin and made a wish: "It would be great if all the wealthy ladies in the capital were as generous and love to spend money as Madam Tang and Madam Ji Er."
"Isn't the most important thing how you know them?"
Manbao looked at Bai Shan and Bai Erlang.
The two of them froze and started to wonder, is it too late to find an excuse to leave now?
Of course, it was too late. Manbao pulled the two of them together and said with a smile, "I'll leave this matter to you. Although you can't get to know these rich ladies, you can get to know their sons."
Bai Shan slapped her hand that was holding Bai Erlang away and asked, "What flowers do you want to sell?"
He tilted his head and frowned, "Aren't the peonies and orchids you gave to the gentleman left in Qili Village? Besides, it's not the blooming season yet."
Manbao said, "I want to sell chrysanthemums!"
Bai Shan then remembered that autumn was approaching and the early chrysanthemums were in bloom.
Bai Erlang asked: "Where did you get these chrysanthemums? They're a rare variety..."
Manbao said, "There is no flower in this world that I can't find. If I can't find it, it must be because I don't have enough time."
This sentence was also said to Koko. In the future, she will definitely find all the plants that can be found in this world and give them to Koko so that he can collect them all.
Koko gave her a string of light notes in response, but the program remained calm. It thought: Before that, the host has to save her own life, right?
When Bai Erlang heard her say this, he remembered her habit of digging wherever she went. He nodded and felt that what she said made sense.
Bai Shan thought that maybe Uncle Zhou had some help in this?
He did not continue the topic, but thought in his mind how to find these silly classmates who are rich, like to spend money, and are willing to spend money after entering the Imperial College.
Bai Erlang had always been carefree and went with the flow. Although he had promised Manbao, he had no intention of putting in too much effort. He decided that once he got to school and got to know his classmates, he would just ask who liked chrysanthemums and who wanted to buy some. Why bother?
What he was more worried about was, "Do you think I can get into the four-year college?"
Bai Shan exclaimed, "Huh?" and asked, "Shouldn't it be the Imperial College? You don't even have the confidence to enter the Four Schools?"
"The Imperial College is just wishful thinking. I think I should be more practical. I'll be satisfied if I can get into one of the four major colleges," Bai Erlang thought cheerfully. "My elder brother studied for so many years and worked so hard, but he only managed to get into one of the four major colleges."
He thought that it would be better if he was not allowed to study mathematics, as it was really a headache. Law was also a headache because there were so many things to memorize.
Man Bao said, "You are different from Senior Brother Bai. Senior Brother Bai is taking a major exam, with thousands of people taking it together. You are only 48 people. Can't you compete?"
"What if those forty-eight people are better than me?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at him and sighed. They patted his shoulders, one on each side, and said, "Bai Er, although you can't study as well as me, you're not worse than others. Look, when we were in Yizhou City, weren't you in the same class as Qi Jue and the others? They were older than you."
Manbao said, "Junior brother, you have to know that Shanbao and I are very smart, very smart. You can't compare us with ordinary people out there."
(End of this chapter)
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